Arjay Miller was one of the ten Whiz Kids hired by Henry Ford II of the Ford Motor Company.
17 Facts About Arjay Miller
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Arjay Miller served as president of Ford Motor Company between 1963 and 1968, until he was abruptly fired by Henry Ford II.
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Arjay Miller then went on to become the dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Arjay Miller graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science degree in banking and finance in 1937.
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Arjay Miller met Frances Fearing while attending UCLA and they got married in 1940.
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Arjay Miller worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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Arjay Miller attempted to enlist in the US military for World War II and was rejected due to poor eyesight.
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Arjay Miller was later drafted to the US Army Air Forces where he taught pilots on a flight simulator.
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Arjay Miller enrolled in a statistical program for officers at Harvard University, and joined the Army Air Forces's Office of Statistical Control, where he worked with others to track the logistics of air operations and training for the remainder of the war.
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Arjay Miller was hired in 1945 as part of the Ford finance department's analysis unit.
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Arjay Miller was named President of Ford Motor Company in May 1963, succeeding John Dykstra.
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In July 1969, Arjay Miller replaced Ernie Arbuckle as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Arjay Miller remained as dean for 10 years, until retiring from the post in 1979.
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Arjay Miller co-founded the Public Policy Institute of California with Bill Hewlett and Roger Heyns in 1994, served as the chair of the board of directors from 1995 to 1998, and remained a member of the board until 2006.
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Arjay Miller was the founding chairman of the board and a life trustee of the Urban Institute.
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Arjay Miller was named an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution, and a board member of the Mellon Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and SRI International.
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Arjay Miller died on November 3,2017, in Woodside, California, at the age of 101.